Favorite college radio shows?

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I recently asked what your favorite college radio stations were. Now I want to know what your favorite (current) college radio SHOWS are. We're building a calendar (link) with the most interesting college radio shows, where the DJ is clearly passionate and puts a lot of effort into his/her show. The shows on the calendar are automatically pulled and displayed in the "Now Playing" section here.

sxv, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

fixed calendar link

sxv, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

Love these shows, also available on the net for streaming:

Breakfast Of Champions, WMBR, Fri, 8-10am
http://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=7879

Flyweight, WZBC, Thu, 5-7pm
http://www.facebook.com/wzbc.flyweight

Eardrum Buzz, WBRS, Tue, 10-12pm
http://eardrumbuzz-wbrs.blogspot.com/

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:52 (fourteen years ago)

The eternal Hillbilly at Harvard, of course!

http://whrb.org/hillbillyatharvard.html

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 01:00 (fourteen years ago)

Never heard any except the C-90s of my own.

ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 03:25 (fourteen years ago)

good suggestions so far. the eternal hillbilly looks excellent. any others?

sxv, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 07:53 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://atlretro.com/tag/jet-lag/

Yoon at Jetlag 88 has DJ'd my favorite radio show ever. She has the best taste in music; sometimes I would be at a party and the music would be really good and I would go and see who it was. It was her with some cool crazy psychedelic/prog records that had just got reissued. This show is the best. They played this thing tonight that sounded like Roy Orbison in Japanese, it had that intense early rock n roll passion but was from some non-English speaking group in the 70s. Anyways. Always the best 2 hours of my week.

Sunday 8pm-10pm 88.5FM

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 March 2015 04:08 (ten years ago)

I just made an offhand comment about her style last week when she was really focusing on prog by saying on fb I just happened to catch a little bit of the prog show on Album 88, and the host was rambling on and on and on and never getting to the point and I thought "well, if ever there was a perfect way to host a prog rock show, then this is it!"

I was informed by a mutual friend that she's actually really cool and I didn't mean anything by it. I just seized and opportunity for a good joke.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 March 2015 04:45 (ten years ago)

wzbc has a bunch of good shows. wzbc.org/#schedule
search: atencion!, allston's revenge, gulls window circus, psychotic reactions, street meat, poetry ruins everything, kick out the james.

(i am also on wzbc, as a peek at the schedule link will reveal. it's really fun!)

maura, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:44 (ten years ago)

oh and also the mighty jon solomon's show on wprb in princeton: keepingscoreathome.com

maura, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:44 (ten years ago)

WMBR - Backwoods

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)

both wmbr and wzbc have great shows but the most boring ones are for the most part during rush hour, so i rarely get to listen to the better shows unless i find them online later. when i'm in the car it tends to be so much bland 80s-90s alternative rock

marcos, Monday, 23 March 2015 15:56 (ten years ago)

Jetlag 88 isn't just a prog show though. It's more like international psychedelia. First time I listened to it there was a killer 15-minute Korean version of "Inna Gadda Da Vida".

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 March 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)

Oh I know. She was doing her Gong tribute when I tuned in, though.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 March 2015 16:58 (ten years ago)

i have a college radio show sundays at noon on wqhs.org

primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)

it's not as good as the best college radio i've heard. there was this metal show on princeton university's station last year and the DJ was such a charming dork it was great. the music was good too.

primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

so boston folks what is a good global/international show to tune into?

marcos, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:44 (ten years ago)

Man I used to play international psych and prog (including that Korean In A Gadda Da Vida cover) and nobody gave a fuuuuuuck.

^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 23 March 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)

Well if it's any consolation I checked Jetlag's facebook page for last night's set list and there were only 4 likes.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

It's a little bit of consolation for the black hole of bitterness inside me, yes. But that sucks, I wish people were more interested in the awesome, beautiful weirdness of the past.

^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:07 (ten years ago)

sorry if my show is boring

maura, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:08 (ten years ago)

lol maura your show ends at 5pm so i haven't heard it yet!

marcos, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:19 (ten years ago)

hahaha oh ok. i play a lot of 90s stuff! it's all archived at zbconline.com

maura, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:21 (ten years ago)

i have one of these, too. my show is very ilm-friendly but i'm kind of a bad host http://www.cfrc.ca/bleunuit_20150218

flopson, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 02:30 (ten years ago)

Sad to hear Yoon announce she is graduating soon and Jetlagg 88 will have the final episode in 4 or 5 shows =( She played Vangelis's soundtrack to "The Apocalypse of Animals", which is a psychedelic French nature documentary from 1970:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgpHcWKm24o

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 March 2015 02:57 (ten years ago)

Not sad she's graduating obv, sad the show is ending.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 March 2015 02:57 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

I still don’t have a blog to dump this stuff, so:

I’ve lived in Boston for years and I’ve always been really disheartened by the lack of a dance program on Saturday evenings (on both commercial and non-commercial radio). I finally started to make moves to remedy the situation. Inspired by Maura’s show on Boston College’s WZBC, I starting plotting the structure of a dance program on MIT’s WMBR and this week I started recording a demo episode. It’s a survey of Eurodance from 1990 to 2010!

A few random ideas:

- A weekly show sounds impossible, so I’ve been thinking about a format where it’s possible to have reruns. I really loved that Brave New Waves on CBC Radio 2 stuck to three or four different structures: survey episodes, occasional “let’s play new music” episodes, interview episodes, and performance (usually pre-recorded mixes) episodes. They’d rerun everything but the “let’s play new music” episodes and it seemed fine to me as a listener.

- I also want to steal Patti Schmidt’s radio voice, e.g. https://youtu.be/c3v0PJmByx8

- I love a lot of the fixtures of weekend dance radio. Especially shout out calls-ins. I think my love for this comes from my love of the New Dance Show (https://youtu.be/CgdG5KAbf18). I really need to figure out how-to make this happen. I think it’s probably easiest to fake it.

- I also really love drops from the performer you’re about to play so I started asking some people to record them and, shockingly, they started doing just that. In the past day, I’ve chatted with Veronica Almqvist from Smile.dk, Aneela Mirza from Toy-Box, and Thea Austin from Snap! Thea (I’m imaging we’re now on a first name basis) is now a successful lobbyist for global women’s issues.

- Like everyone else who loves this type of thing, I love The Electrifying Mojo and The Wizard. I especially loved their use of weird recordings in their mixes like stuff they recorded from TV. I decided to make this episode Y2K themed so I’ve been ripping audio from YouTube videos with hysterical people talking about floating-point overflow issues.

Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:43 (six years ago)

sounds really neat! would love to hear it

dyl, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:34 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

Yeah sounds very cool!

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 September 2018 10:21 (six years ago)

Oops I don't check my bookmarks often but anyway

Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 September 2018 10:22 (six years ago)


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